(a.) Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The condition is compared to extrahepatic and intrahepatic biliary atresia of man and evidence is presented for regarding this case to be one of extrahepatic origin.
(2) Results demonstrate that the development of biliary strictures is strongly associated with the duration of cold ischemic storage of allografts in both Euro-Collins solution and University of Wisconsin solution.
(3) The most serious complications following operative treatment are retained bile duct calculi (2.8%), wound infection and biliary fistulae.
(4) In case of biliary and pancreatic duct obstruction with pure pancreatic reflux, both oedema and inflammatory infiltrations were evident, whereas, in the presence of biliary reflux too, more serious histological features were detected.
(5) Therapy was withheld after 19 months because of biliary sclerosis development.
(6) Papillomatosis of the biliary ducts is exceptional.
(7) Bile flow was stimulated significantly by VPA and MCCA, but not by CCA; changes in bile flow correlated with the biliary excretion rate of base-labile conjugates rather than with excretion of the parent compounds themselves.
(8) When a biliary origin is detected this can lead to immediate treatment using endoscopic sphincterotomy.
(9) Biliary and urinary excretion of five tritium-labelled cardiac glycosides, i.e.
(10) [14C]Sucrose biliary clearance increased in treated animals, suggesting an increased permeability of the biliary system to sucrose.
(11) Type II includes the Sjögren's syndrome, rhumatoid arthritis, primary biliary cirrhosis, scleroderma and autoimmune thyroid disorders.
(12) This may be the reason that the renal contrast materials are poorly escreted in bile compared to the biliary contrast agents.
(13) Major reported complications include hemorrhage, perforation, biliary and pancreatic obstruction, and inflammation with intestinal obstruction.
(14) Six of the obstructed livers developed biliary cast formation so extensive that the smaller intrhepatic ducts became plugged to an extent that they could no longer have been treated by surgical mena.
(15) Thus biliary GSSG efflux, a frequently used index of oxidant stress, is not increased in vitamin E-deficient perfused livers compared with control.
(16) In this series, the association between the anomalous ductal insertion and biliary tract disease cannot be established, since the method of patient selection obviates any epidemiologic consideration.
(17) In chronic active hepatitis and liver cirrhosis, both carbohydrate antigen 19-9 positive biliary ductular cells and factor VIII-related antigen positive endothelial cells were not only observed in the enlarged portal area but also extended into the parenchyma.
(18) The effect on biliary lipid secretion is unpredictable and affected by the dose and, in consequence, by the conjugation pattern of the bile acid.
(19) According to the resolution of the national coordinative conference, 1098 cases with extrahepatic biliary cancer, from 1977, January to 1989, April were collected by over 40 hospitals and coordinative groups throughout the country.
(20) Because of the absence of a history of pancreatitis or an operation upon the biliary tract, the obstruction was thought to be due to malignancy.
Cholelithiasis
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A small risk of cholelithiasis exists with these drugs, and caution should be used when combining these drugs with HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors because the combination increases the incidence of hyperlipidemic myositis and rhabdomyolysis.
(2) In order to establish the incidence of cholelithiasis after vagotomy, the patients operated upon in the period January 1st 1966, to December 31st 1971, were reexamined.
(3) The glycosidase activities in bile from patients with liver diseases, as well as with cholelithiasis, were generally decreased.
(4) However a direct relationship between alcoholism and pigment cholelithiasis has not been previously demonstrated.
(5) This is a case report of a 13-year-old girl who had cholelithiasis secondary to endogenous hypertriglyceridemia.
(6) In a study including 392 patients we compared two groups of patients according to the indication for laparoscopic cholecystectomy: group I: 293 patients treated for simple cholelithiasis (n = 291) or gallbladder polyps (n = 2).
(7) Early diagnosis of cholelithiasis is essential, if CDC-therapy is to be applied more frequently and if this form of therapy is to have better effects.
(8) Seventy-eight patients have been treated with early surgery once a diagnosis of cholelithiasis associated pancreatitis was made.
(9) Obesity and cholelithiasis are also the risk factors for development of cancer of the given location.
(10) An analysis of the occurrence of gallbladder disease (ie, cholelithiasis, cholecystitis, cholecystectomy) in 210 consecutive patients with primary hyperlipoproteinemia showed that the prevalence of gallbladder disease was 8%, 18%, and 42% in males with type IIa, IIb, and IV hyperlipoproteinemia, and 22%, 48%, and 72% in the corresponding groups of females.
(11) The treatment of patients with sickle cell disease and cholelithiasis is controversial.
(12) In a prospective study of 70 patients with duodenal diverticula and calculous biliary tract disease, bacteriocholia with typical intestinal bacteria was found in 69%, whereas in cholelithiasis without duodenal diverticula this complication was present in 30% of the cases.
(13) When the possible effects of associated hypertension or diabetes mellitus were taken into account, subjects with cholelithiasis showed the same extent of raised and calcified lesions of the coronary arteries, the same prevalence of large myocardial scars, and the same distribution of heart weight as subjects without cholelithiasis.
(14) The cause of cholelithiasis has been explained on the basis of biochemical changes with mechanical obstruction.
(15) At the same time 40.5% of the patients with cholelithiasis are obese--II-IV degree of obesity.
(16) The time course of the blood and bile lipids and the relationship thereof reflect the depression of cholesterol hydroxylation processes and reduction with age of cholic and deoxycholic acids synthesis and conjugation intensities in the patients with cholelithiasis, as well as a reduction of deoxycholic acid synthesis in normal subjects.
(17) Six cases of lung cancer combined with the disease which has needed semi-emergency operation, two cases of unstable angina, two of ileus due to colon cancer, one of impending rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm and one of purulent cholecystitis with cholelithiasis, were discussed.
(18) This study shows that cirrhosis represents a risk factor for the development of cholelithiasis in males.
(19) The results showed that 37% of the cases were related to cholelithiasis, the highest incidence was in age above 60, and female patients were predominant and with higher mortality.
(20) Although, in the last years, the high transfusional regimen has decreased the incidence of cholelithiasis, the frequent liver disease could be a cause of acalculous cholecystopathy in younger thalassemic patients.